Are you a People and Culture professional looking for a new challenge? Are you passionate and enthusiastic for providing a broad and effective People and Culture Service?
St Helena Hospice is looking to appoint a full time People & Culture Officer to work Monday to Friday.
NVQ Level 3 in Adminstration or CIPD Level 3 are essential
Main Duties:
In conjunction with the P&C team, to provide a comprehensive, effective and efficient service throughout St Helena, and to outside agencies, to managers, and employees by providing a pro-active support service and advice on a full range of Human Resources issues, referring to the P&C Business Partners where necessary, including recruitment, employee relations, training and workforce planning.
To investigate issues arising from disciplinary and grievance, reporting on findings and making recommendations as appropriate.T
To provide guidance and support on queries in relation to their employment, including pay and conditions of service.
To cover the admin officer in periods of absence.
To ensure accuracy of information when inputting into the HRIS System, including producing reports from these systems as required.
Planning and co-ordination of complex activities and programmes such as grievance and disciplinary hearings, induction programmes, responding pro-actively to changes as they occur to ensure the smooth running of the processes.
To provide confidential support and advice throughout the disciplinary and grievance process and act as the investigating officer at disciplinary and grievance hearings through presentation of complex information, confirming the outcome of hearings verbally and in writing, compiling investigation reports and policies and advise and assist line managers in the investigation and action resulting from disciplinary matters including formalising allegations, confirming outcome of hearings and ensuring reviews of warnings are carried out.
Take formal minutes at disciplinary and grievance meetings as necessary.
To use own judgement and knowledge to provide advice to line managers on different kinds of contracts of employment e.g. fixed term contracts annualised hour’s contracts, bank contracts – ensuring that managers have all the relevant information to make decisions. Where issues are complex, to refer to the relevant P&C Business Partner
To provide advice and guidance to the P&C team on P&C processes, preparation of contracts and other employee documentation
Advise managers, where judgements have to be made, in dealing with complex HR matters, such as disciplinary, capability/performance, sickness/absence and grievance issues as appropriate, including preparation for and presentation of appeals.
To advise staff on their maternity, paternity and adoption rights – as well as rights under other P&C policies, including flexible working and develop and monitor systems to deal with these.
Provide advice and support for organisational change, including liaison and negotiation with employees. This can include disputed and confrontational issues where influencing and motivation skills will be required.
To write, document and continually develop P&C related procedures to ensure consistency and continuity of their implementation, both within the P&C team and across relevant functions as required.
To collate data as and when required in order for the Associate Director of People & Culture and People & Culture Business Partners to evaluate and comment on. Statistics such as gender pay gap reporting, staff turnover and sickness absence.
St Helena may elect to bring forward the closing date for this vacancy in the event we receive the desired volume of applications. You are therefore encouraged you to submit your application early if you wish to express an interest in this opportunity.
St Helena Hospices’ core values and behaviours will be embedded in our recruitment, our training and development review and our decision making process.
St Helena provides a friendly, supportive and positive working environment across all our sites and diverse teams. We are an ambitious organisation determined to make a difference to local people across north Essex who face incurable illness and bereavement. That means working with us is a demanding but hugely fulfilling experience.
In return we offer;
- A competitive and progressive salary
- Group Pension Plan
- Employee Assistance and Wellbeing support
- Free on site parking
- Blue Light Card eligibility
Closing date - 24/7/26
Job Types: Permanent, Full-time
Pay: £33,000.00-£35,000.00 per year
Benefits:
- Company pension
- Free parking
- Health & wellbeing programme
- On-site parking
- Work from home
Education:
- A-Level or equivalent (required)
Experience:
- Human resources: 3 years (required)
Licence/Certification:
Work authorisation:
- United Kingdom (required)
Location:
- Colchester CO4 9JU (preferred)
Work Location: In person
